[gentoo-dev] bug features etc.

[Onne Gorter]

Hi there,
first of all: thank you, I have been looking for something like gentoo linux
for some time, I like it.

then: some sugestions on emerge:
	* make a --fake option only adding the package to the database, without
doing anything else! Helps with mozilla etc, so I can install mozilla 0.9.9
without an ebuid. Of course make sure you point out it is for experts only!
	* make a --binairy option so that if available it will get the binairies
instead of building a source package, which sometimes is just too much for
what it is worth: like mozilla, gnome, xfree, evolution etc. But I want the
latest, so --usepkg won't do.

then: a nasty bug which for which I cannot give you exact listings, since it
happend during bootstrapping. Somehow a package started complaining that gcc
could not build binairies. (about 30min in the process, sorry, that's all I
can say) I tried the latest iso: 1.0r6-17. That was a shame, I had to do a
binairy install. Which brings me to my last point:

How can I (savely) update my basic packages like gcc glibc etc? Can I just
do an emerge and it will be allright? Perhaps it would be nice if there was
a manual about installing the binairy release and later (in the background,
or when time is available) recompile those binairies.

greetz Onne (netherlands)

PS: Sorry, I won't do a bug report, don't really know how and have to make
an account.